I recently had the chance to take a day off to myself. Long overdue and certainly time well
spent! It started with a long
drive out of town to drop the kids off at the grandparents, followed by a
massage at one of my favorite Yoga spots - Moksha Yoga. Moksha seems to be the Goodlife of
yoga. There are many of them
around and they seem to be doing very well. They have a nice variety of experienced and talented
instructors and run many classes throughout the day/week to keep customers
coming. It is a nice studio and
convenient to be able to get a massage there too.
I was hoping to get some yoga time but that was just a
little ambitious seeing as I was also meeting a friends for a late lunch, and then
another for dinner!
First, a light lunch meeting at Oliver & Bonacini. What a fun menu and great place to stop for food! But wait, first I need to talk about
the daily fresh squeezed juice they offer. It’s not cheap but totally worth it. Well, that is if they are serving the mango
peach lemonade! It was delicious
and probably the best juice I’ve ever had. Once our thirst got crunched, we each had their
signature mushroom soup – which is nothing like your creamy white Campbell’s
stuff. This soup is actually made
with mushrooms and of course it was delightful. Following this, we split the fish tacos and dumplings.
Quick stop at home, change the boots to fancier ones and off
to downtown Toronto to one of Bay Street’s new hot spots - Chase Restaurant. This restaurant was built in an old reconstructed downtown
building that was in pretty bad shape not too long a go. They did an amazing job at giving it a
facelift, adding a glassed in top floor with a patio, which is where the restaurant
sits (on the 5th floor).
One the main floor is the Oyster Bar owned by the same guy. This is not quite the place to be
taking take blog pics so you may want to check out their website instead of my
discrete and quick iphone pics (what do you mean tourist? I come hear all the
time!). You know, you need to walk
in there like spending $30 for a glass of wine is totally normal and expected
on a night out in the financial district.
Well, all I have to say is, what a great night! It was great wine, amazing food and
best of all, I got to share it with a good old friend of mine as we celebrated our
“milestone” birthdays together. I
will leave the milestone age as a guess teaser – not because I don’t want to
announce my age, more because I like playing that game ;-)
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| We decided to split everything we ordered. Too bad the knife got to the Lobster salad before the camera did! |
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| Not the best pic - This does not do it justice and once again it is half the real dish! It's the cauliflower and scalops with ham hock and an egg sitting on the quinoa and cauliflower pure. Every bite was full of delicious flavours. |
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| What a great waiter! He watched us contemplate on which desert to order so he brought us both the key lime pie and the chocolate cake --- on the house for the birthday girls! |
